linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:11:26 -0800
From:   Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <shallyn@...co.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has_cap()

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 4:47 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:

> > > The criu process is started with all capabilities in the root user namespace.
> > >
> > > I don't have time to investigate this issue right now, will provide
> > > more details next Tuesday.
> >
> > Yeah, we've detected the issue. security_capable() indicates success by
> > returning 0 for whatever reason whereas has_ns_capability() returns 1.
> > So the logic was inverted. This is fixed in the new version. Sorry for
> > the noise!
>
> So, I just finished compiling criu and running the test suite on the
> criu-dev branch. The test-suite passes fine after the security_capable()
> braino in my original patch was corrected to security_capable() == 0:
>
> ################## ALL TEST(S) PASSED (TOTAL 178/SKIPPED 16) ###################

Thank you for doing this! Not all CRIU contributors can run all tests. You rock!

>
> Thanks!
> Christian